A new experimental pancreatic cancer drug is inspiring hope as it may help extend the lives of terminal patients. Although ...

“As patients, a lot of our quality of care — not to mention our satisfaction — depends on having a doctor we both like and trust,” Kim Fellner writes in the latest installment of her series on living ...

April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

To demonstrate the need for the policy, which would allow medical marijuana for hospitalized terminal patients as long as it ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Lawmakers in Harrisburg have introduced legislation that would allow terminally ill patients to use non-smoking forms of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania hospitals. The bill, ...

A team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed a successful liver transplant in a patient with terminal colorectal cancer. The procedure was made possible through Northwestern’s new ...

Family caregivers of patients with terminal cancer need psychospiritual care. The assessment of their psychospiritual distress is challenging. An automated system can be used to detect psychospiritual ...

WILMINGTON, Del. -- A hospital in Delaware held a special wedding for a terminally ill cancer patient. Gus and Rachel Jiménez said their vows Sunday, but they've been following the pledge "in sickness ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A new bill introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate is looking to expand medical marijuana use for terminal patients who are actively receiving treatment in hospitals. The proposed ...